Lily AI, Grant Writing Assistant

Overview

The Lily AI Grant Writing Assistant is a powerful feature in Grant Frog that helps you create and refine grant proposals, grant applications, grant reports, and other grant details using artificial intelligence (AI).

Grant Content Library is a way for you to save your organization's most important grant narratives, snippets, and templates in one place, helping you save time and write grant applications more efficiently.

Whether you're starting from scratch or improving existing content, this tool can generate executive summaries, project descriptions, compelling titles, and enhanced narratives saving you time and helping you craft professional, well-structured grant applications.

Lily AI can use your own grant content as context and style to maintain or organization's language and tone of voice.

Use the Content Library and Lily AI to:

• Store your reusable grant narratives and templates
• Write your grants using your content templates and full word editor
• Fill out grant applications side-by-side with Grant Frog
• Use the Content Editor to write and collaborate on grants
• Generate new sections with Lily AI from scratch or improve narratives you already have
• Keep your organization's language consistent across every application

How your data is processed

How to Access Lily AI and Content Library

You can navigate to Lily AI in several different ways:

• The main menu - Lily AI
• On the Content Library primary page
• In the Content editor inside the Content Library by clicking Ask Lily
• In the Content editor by typing the / command
• In the Content editor in Grants and Grant Reports

How You Need to use Lily AI for Writing Assistance

Lily AI can help you write or edit in several different ways:

• Lily can Edit and Write based on text you've already written inside the Content editor

• Lily can Write new content from scratch based on a custom prompt, our preset templates, and/or your Content context.

Best Way to Get Started

Edit and Write Using Content inside the Content Editor

The best way to get started with Lily AI and Content Library is to first create a few Content articles in your Content Library about your organization:

• Organization Overview and Mission

• Program Overview - choose a specific program

Organize your content with tags or folders so you and your team can find things fast.

These become the general templates you and your team members use as the basis for any grant application.

Now, start using Lily inside the Content Editor by clicking Ask Lily and then choose a preset template. Lily then uses context from inside this specific Content doc to create what you need.

Example: Choose Enhance to improve and enhance your current narrative.

Every time Lily creates text, you can choose what you want to do:

Replace - Accept the entire text and Remove your previous text

Insert below - Inserts the text below your current text

Try again - Lily will write the text in a different way

Discard - Delete the text

Write New Content with Lily AI

You can create new content with Lily AI with custom prompts or prebuilt templates.

You can also attach reference materials from your Content Library to provide more context. When you attach reference content, Lily is able to better create your requested narrative.

Example: I chose the Custom prompt and entered 'Create a Sustainability overview'

Then I selected reference context from other Content in my Content Library - 'African Lion Habitat Project Description.' This will allow Lily to use information from the Project to create the Sustainability overview.

Choose a Preset Writing Template

Lily AI Grant Writer Assistant offers multiple preset grant templates for you to use:

• Executive Summary - A comprehensive overview of your entire project
• Project Description - A detailed explanation of your project or program
• Project Summary - A concise 4-5 sentence overview
• Grant Project Titles - Multiple title options for your grant proposal
• Rewrite - Reword existing content
• Enhance - Improve your existing content
• Custom - you can enter in your own grant prompt to write what you need

These will require your organizational context or you can use a custom prompt

Preset Templates - Helpful Info to Include

Generate Project Description

Helpful info to include

• The amount you're requesting
• What the project or program is for
• What it will accomplish
• Expected outcomes
• Any other relevant details

Tip: The more detail you provide, the more comprehensive your output will be.

Create a Project Summary

Ensure you have a Project Description so a summary can be generated

Write an Executive Summary

Ensure you have a Project Description

Generate Grant Proposal Titles

Ensure you have Project Information

Important Reminders

Your content stays yours. Lily runs on Anthropic's Claude through their commercial API. What you send is used only to create the output you asked for, not to train an AI model.

Lily writes, but she doesn't have the final say. Review your draft and make sure it matches what you need, what your funder needs, and your organization.

Lily can make mistakes - verify data and details. Review before it goes to a funder — especially numbers, dates, and names.

Use it responsibly. Don't use Grant Frog's AI features to process data you don't have the right to use, to handle sensitive or regulated data, or to generate unlawful or harmful content.

AI Credits

You'll receive AI writing credits based on your chosen plan with the option to purchase more credits.

Updated on: 21/08/2026